Artist's arttributes:
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Female |
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Painting, Installation |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 69 |
| France | 9 |
| United Kingdom | 9 |
| Germany | 9 |
| Switzerland | 6 |
Biography: 
1949 Born in Corpus Christi, TX (US)
Lives and works in Gary, IN (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 117 
until 15.4.2014
until 27.7.
Solo shows 29
2012
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| Kay Rosen: Wide and Deep - Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York City, NY |
2011
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| Kay Rosen - Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, WV |
2010
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| Black and White and Read All Over - The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
2009
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| Kay Rosen - Sutton Lane - Paris, Paris |
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| Kay Rosen - Klosterfelde, Berlin |
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| Kay Rosen - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Kay Rosen - Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition - Berlin, Berlin |
2008
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| Alone and Together - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
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| No Noose Is Good Noose - Alexander Gray Associates, New York City, NY |
2007
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| The Four Seasons - Southfirst, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Kay Rosen: Wall paintings and drawings 2002 - 2006 - - Yvon Lambert - New York, New York City, NY (closed, 2011) |
2005
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| Kay Rosen - (NO) COMMENT - Klosterfelde, Berlin |
2004
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| Kay Rosen - Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Kay Rosen: Big Talk - Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin |
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| Kay Rosen - New Word Order - Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA |
2002
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| Kay Rosen - Collages 1999-2002 - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
2001
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| New Work 4: Kay Rosen: Up and Down - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
1998
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| Kay Rosen - Lifeli[k]e - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Kay Rosen: ABC (At Beaver College) - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA |
1997
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| Kay Rosen: Short Stories/Tall Tales - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
1996
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| Kay Rosen - Surplus - Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens |
1995
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| Kay Rosen - - Galerie Friedrich - Bern, Bern (closed, 2001) |
1993
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| Kay Rosen - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1992
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| Kay Rosen - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1990
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| Kay Rosen - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1984
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| Kay Rosen - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1979
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| Kay Rosen - The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX |
Group shows 86
2013
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| Group Exhibition - Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York City, NY |
2012
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| Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art - Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO |
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| GirlTalk - Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, Raleigh, NC |
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| Don't smile - Galerie Friedrich - Basel, Basel |
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| Don´t Smile - Vom Humor der Kunst - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz |
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| Turtle Salon - Meter Room, Coventry (England) |
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| Par Par S E T - The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| Grey Full - Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York City, NY |
2011
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| IN OTHER WORDS: the place of text in recent art - Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork |
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| Play Time - Œuvres de la collection Klosterfelde - L.A.C. - Lieu d'Art Contemporaine, Sigean |
2010
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| I Believe in Miracles - 10thanniversary of the Lambert Collection - Collection Lambert, Avignon |
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| From A to B - MKG127, Toronto, ON |
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| Blatt Spezial - TÄT, Berlin |
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| We Between the Lines - Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Che cosa sono le nuvole? Werke aus der Sammlung Enea Righi - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| FAX - Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| FAX - Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA |
2009
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| FAX - Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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| Picturing the Studio - SAIC - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Learning Modern Exhibition / Sullivan Galleries - SAIC - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Inaugural Exhibition Potsdamerstrasse - Sutton Lane - Paris, Paris |
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| FAX - - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (closed, 2012) |
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| Wright - Sutton Lane - Paris, Paris |
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| Wright - Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition - Berlin, Berlin |
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| Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry - Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York City, NY |
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| Rich Text - Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
2008
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| Prospect.1 New Orleans - Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA |
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| TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 08 - TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague |
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| Archaeology of Longing (Archéologie de la Chine) - Kadist Art Foundation, Paris |
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| Political Corect - BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva |
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| Shit: a group exhibition - Feature Inc, New York City, NY |
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| Idiolects - Brown, London (England) |
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| In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis - The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Always There Part 2 - Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin |
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| It´s Gouache & Gouache Only - Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| IT´S GOUCHE & GOUACHE ONLY - Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Words Fail Me - Museum of Contemporay Art Detroit, Detroit, MI |
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| Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me - Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC |
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| The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan - Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI |
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| Sign Language - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
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| Numerica - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
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| Touch-down 1 - Galerie Friedrich - Basel, Basel |
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| General Idea, Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Lawrence Weiner - Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition - Berlin, Berlin |
2006
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| Signs of Life - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
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| Safe: an exploration of domesticity ... - Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| R³: Reading ‘Ritin ‘Rithmetic, 30 Years Later - Castle Gallery, Inverness (Scotland) |
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| Under the Skin: Tattoos and Contemporary Culture - Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC |
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| Eldorado - MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg |
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| No Lemons, No Melon - David Krut Projects - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Takeover - Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL |
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| Message personnel - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
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| Having New Eyes - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| Humor Me - H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
2005
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| General Ideas - Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987–2005 - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Very Early Pictures - The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Collection Remixed - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY |
2004
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| Disturbing the Peace - Danese, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Invite #8 - Diverse - Klosterfelde, Berlin |
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| The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were - Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Back in Black - - Cohan and Leslie, New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Matthew McCaslin - Kay Rosen - Electric Circus and ROOMS - Galerie Friedrich - Basel, Basel |
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| Rendez-vous #4 - Collection Lambert, Avignon |
2001
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| Game Show - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
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| Blondies and Brownies - weiß weiß bin ich auch - Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich |
2000
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| Art On Paper 2000 - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Errant Gestures - Apexart, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Edifying Sappho & Socrates - Torch Gallery, Amsterdam |
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| The Sea, The Sea - Murray Guy, New York City, NY |
1998
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| In the Beginning - Murray Guy, New York City, NY |
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| Word Perfect - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| A to Z - The Approach, London (England) |
1997
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| Critical Images - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Tangles - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
1995
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| Representational Drawings - Feature Inc, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Why Paint?: Judy Ledgerwood, Jim Lutes, Kay Rosen, Kevin Wolff - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Steven Evans, Michael Jenkins, and Kay Rosen - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Act-Up Benefit Exhibition - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Manum de tabula - Shedhalle, Zurich |
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| Group exhibition - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1990
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| Voorwerk 1 - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
1989
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| Problems with reading and rereading - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1985
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| Invitational - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
Dealer Directory 5 |
Germany
Greece
| | Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens
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Switzerland
| | Galerie Friedrich - Basel, Basel
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USA
| | The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York City, NY
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Collections 3

USA
| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN
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